At the beginning of this year, I made a resolution to blog regularly.  During that time, I have being discovering my public image.

Getting started, I really liked the way that Maigh’s Blog looks, so I decided to use Wordpress for my blog.  I originally started off with a Wordpress.com subdomain, but that was very short lived.  I am too much of a gadgeteer to withstand the inability to customize my blog.

Now I am self-hosting Wordpress and that has suited me for the last month or so, but I am in need of something richer.

Since I am a .Net developer by trade and know very little about PHP, I get frustrated with the things that I am unable to do with my blog…albeit from lack of trying, not from the shortcomings of PHP.

If you have been paying attention, my blog was down for the last 3 days.  I managed to completely botch my environment in way that caused me to have to completely rebuild it.  The entire experience made me realize that I do not want to be hosted with Wordpress or with anything else out there.  What I really want is a custom built site that I can freely update.

Microsoft just released Silverlight 2.0 to beta.  Though my experience with XAML must be measured in grams, it is a technology that greatly interests me. 

Now that I have remedied my Wordpress problems, I will be dedicating some evenings to creating my own blog hosting software using Silverlight 2.0.

During this development process, I will keep you posted on my progress and, hopefully, will be able to switch you to my new site in a few months.

This should be fun and will allow me to publish what I am learning about Silverlight.

And there you have it.

Joe.

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